Packing and toy box



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F. M. WHITELAW.

PACKING AND TOY BOX.

No. 250,026. Patented Nov 22,1881.

UNTTED; STATES PATENT OFFICE.

-FRANCIS M. WHITELAW, OF HARTWELL, OHIO.

PACKING AND TOY BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,026, dated November22, 1881.

Application filed October 5, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. WHITELAW, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Hartwell, in the countyof Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Combined Packing and Toy Box, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to that class of packing-boxes which are of angularform and employ a telescopic cover, having the faces of both the bodyand cover ornamented with pictures of various persons and things, whichregister when the two sections of the box are together.

It consists in ornamenting the faces of the cover and body or the boxwith figures of human beings, beasts, birds, or things, and the cover ina corresponding manner, except in vignette form, so that when the twoparts are together and the box closed the lower end of the cover willapproach near the bottom of the body, at a point immediately above thelower extremities of the figures thereon, in position for registration,forming but one complete figure of the figures on both body and cover,on each of the faces thereof.

Other featurts of my invention will be fully set forth in the following:

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l' is a perspective view of myimproved box, showing the two sections of the same apart or the boxopen. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the box, (shown closed,) with thefigures on the body and cover registering. Fig. 3 is a perspective Viewof the same, but with different pictures from those shown in Figs. 1 and2,

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having one face of the cover broken open and in section to show thecomplete figure on the body of the box.

A represents the body or that part of the box in which the goods are tobe packed. B represents the cover, sliding over and fitting the same. 00 represent complete figures on the faces of the body A. D D representfigures on the cover B, which, when it is down upon and encompassing thebody A properly, register with the lower portions of the figures O O, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3, making but one complete figure out of the twofigures O D.

It will be seen that, owing to the full representations of figures onboth thebody and cover of the box, either will present a finishedappearance when separate and make two distinct toys, and when the twoparts A and B are together to close the box the figures D on the coverwill register with the figures O on the body, forming variouscombinations by chan ging the position of the cover on the body.

I claim- A box adapted for packing and for use as a toy or toys, havingthe body thereof ornamented with complete figures and the cover withfigures which register when the box is closed, and form but one completefigure on each face of the box, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS M. WHITELAW. Witnesses:

JOHN E. J oNEs, EUGENE L. F'IaNKoEss.

